Criminology of Homicidal Poisoning: Offenders, Victims and Detection

This volume provides an overview of historical and contemporary cases of homicidal poisoning.

While homicidal poisoning is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, it continues to be a contemporary problem, and in fact the unknown offender rate for poisoning cases is 20-30 times that of other homicide types in contemporary research, and many poisoners commit serial homicides while going undetected.

The author of this important and timely work explores the theoretical bases for understanding homicidal poisoning, the nature of poisons used in homicidal cases, the characteristics of poisoners and their victims and techniques for detection and prevention.